Mailing-package.



R. HARVEY.

MAILING PACKAGE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10, 1912.

1,093,850. Patented A r.'21, 1914.

WITNESSES: IN VENTOR fl /4 K W W Mao i ATTORNE Y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REDGE HARVEY, 0F DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HARRY E. MARSHALL, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

MAILING-PACKAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 21, 1914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Rnoon HARVEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of WVayne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Maili11g-Packages, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact de' scription of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to mailing packages and has for its object a combined post-card and package which is constructed from a single blank and is adapted to pass through a canceling machine.

In the drawings :Figure 1, shows the blank. Fig. 2, shows the package when completed. Fig. 3, is an end view of the package, showing the flap open.

The single oblong blank A is cut with the two flaps 1 and 2 projecting from the oblong portion of the blank at each end. A short distance below the top of the blank, shown in Fig. 1, a scoring a, Z), is made parallel with the top edge of the blank. Farther down the blank, a similar parallel scoring 0, d, extends across the blank from the points where the upper edges (considered as shown in this figure) of the flaps adjoin the oblong portion of the blank. A similar parallel scoring 6, f, extends across the blank adjoining the points at which the lower edges of the flaps intersect the oblong portion of the blank. The scorings 0, (Z, and c, f, are spaced a distance equal to the spacing of the scorings a, b, and 0, (Z, and this spacing is made equal to the width of the package desired.

The bases of the flaps are scored by the lines a, e, and d, f. The side edges of the flaps converge slightly as shown in the drawings, as they run away from the base of the flaps. The flap 2 is pierced and an eyelet 3 stamped in the piercing while the portion D of the blank is pierced and an eyelet 4 which carries a prong 5 stamped in the blank. The marking at 6 indicates printing or advertising which may be placed on this portion of the blank at the same operation during which the cutting and the scoring of the blank is effected and the stamping of the eyelets is done. Taking the line 0, d, of Fig. 1 then as an axis, the portions A and B of the blank are turned upward and the portion D lies against the back of the portion A, and pasted to the back of portion A, C is then turned in so that the scoring a, b, registers with the scoring a, f. The flap 1 is then turned over and pasted to the portion D and the flap 2, which is the closure of the package, is turned over and the flexible prong 5 pulled through the eyelet 3 and bent over to hold the flap closed. It is seen that the printing 6 remains on the outside of the package or the back of the postcard, it being the rear of the article that is seen in Fig. 2. On the front of the article, there may be placed such printed matter as the postal authorities permit and the address.

From the above description, it is seen that only the lower portion of the article is used for the package, while the upper portion B is merely a post-card. This allows the article to be passed through the stamping machine, which cannot be done successfully with packages, but are required to be hand stamped and hence are very often delayed, whereas my invention enables the sending of articles that can be carried within the small compass without the delay that is incident to the ordinary envelop packages.

I am aware that package portions have been used in connection with post-cards heretofore, but they have been designed for an entirely different purpose, to wit, to carry a return stamp or some other thing incidental to the main idea which has correspondence on a post-card. My invention is de signed primarily as a package and employs the post-card portion merely to carry the address. and stamp and afford a portion which will go through the canceling machine at the post office. Further, I believe that I am the first one in this art to design a combined post-card and package in a single blank.

What I claim is A combined post-card and package, comprising a rectangular blank having a plurality of scorings parallel with the sides of the blank forming in the completed article at one side a rectangular flat surface larger than the other rectangular surfaces formed by the scorings and which becomes the postcard portion of the completed article, the said blank being provided with flaps adjoining the ends of the rectangular fiat portion adjoining the post-card portion, the fastening means for securing the other llap said blank being foldable along the scoring over the opposite end of the fiat envelop, that separates the rectangular portion which substantially as described.

carries the flaps and the rectangular por- In testimony whereof, I sign this specifi- 5 t1on opposite the post-card port1on, the said cat1on 1n the presence of two w1tnesses.

rectan ular portlon opposite the post card REDGE HARVEY portion when folded being securable to the rectangular portion carrying the flaps to; lVltnessesz form a flat envelop one end of which isl STUART C. BARNES, LU closed by sealing one flap over the same, and VIRGIMA C. SPRATT.

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